Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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